Agnès Buzyn, LREM candidate for mayor of Paris, says that her "priority" is an "economic recovery plan" for the capital, where the post-coronavirus crisis promises to be "very hard", in a interview in the Sunday newspaper . Following the confinement, "the economic crisis looks very tough, particularly in Paris," said the former Minister of Health, who had resigned from his post to run for office in Paris after the Griveaux affair.
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A 400 million euro recovery plan implemented as soon as he took office
Agnes Buzyn had gathered 17.3% of the votes in the first round, far behind her main competitors, Anne Hidalgo, the outgoing mayor PS, and Rachida Dati (LR). "Victory is possible! The cards are shuffled" for the second round on June 28, she said. Its "recovery plan" will be "implemented from July 1" and "will be endowed with 400 million euros, including 170 million for a solidarity fund entrusted to the mayors of boroughs," she promises. "It is a question of helping the tradesmen, craftsmen and restaurateurs to survive, in particular thanks to an exemption from all taxes the first year, even next year if the crisis persists".
Experiment "the liberalization of opening hours throughout Paris"
The former Minister of Health also wants to "experiment for a year with a liberalization of opening hours throughout Paris, evenings and weekends", to "spread the peak hours for consumers, as well as the hours in public transport ". Other projects: "the automation of metro lines in connection with the region", "the creation of 240 garden streets", "the greening of the Seine quays", "the thermal renovation of housing, public buildings, museums, equipment, offices ... ".
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"I think Rachida Dati lives in the last century"
The candidate supported by LREM in the capital severely criticizes her two main competitors, who according to her "are preparing the presidential election of 2022". She accuses Rachida Dati of speaking "only of safety and cleanliness": "She has absolutely no ecological program, it's simple, I think she lives in the last century". "As for Anne Hidalgo, it is not because she puts green on her leaflets that she conducted an ecological policy", she pings.